‘Handshake’ lowered temperature but a year later Kenya is still ailingWhen Nakumatt Supermarkets started wobbling, a friend reminded me of our History class in ‘A’ Levels on France, the gladiator imperialist empire and its insatiable Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. In the next few days, the “handshake” will be one-year-old, and to cap its ramifications across the political spectrum, Uhuru and Raila unveiled the road to another referendum. Yes, the "handshake" lowered political temperatures but it is becoming apparent that it wasn’t the silver bullet to finish off Kenya’s malady. The talk is that there was a Sh7b kickback on a two-dam project and the paper-trail leads to his door-step; that of a Cabinet Secretary and a burly parastatal head in the North Rift. It is now official that National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala have had sessions with detectives.

Source: Standard Digital February 22, 2019 03:22 UTC